Knitted cap



L. H. ENSTEN.

KNITTED CAP.

APPLlCATlON nuzo APR. 30, 1919.

Patented Aug. 12, 1919.

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L. H. ENSTEN.

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APPLICATION FILED APR. 30. I919.

Patented Aug. 12, 1919.

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KNITTED CAP.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug, 12, 1919.

Application filed April 30, 1919. Serial No. 293,660.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS H. ENSTEN, citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Knitted Caps, of which the following is a specificat-iton.

This invention pertains to knitted caps, and the object of the invention is to provide a knitted cap which will fit the head snugly and cover the ears and back of the neck and conform at its edge all around the cap to the exact contour of 'the neck, jaws and forehead of the wearer, and to hold its shape under elastic tension especially at the hollow places beneath the ear and behind the ivot bones of the jaw. a

y idea also involves the making of a cap of the kind described by knitting a strip of goods in a flat form and with continuous selvages which have short sharp turns or angles varying in length at intervals to provide triangular portions of different size in the goods at each side or selvage, whereby one selvage may be folded to bring the edges together so that they may be sewed to form an ovate end for the cap, while the selvage on the other side of the goods will form an irregular scalloped edge adapted to conform to the neck and jaws and brow of the wearer in the manner and with the effect substantially as described.

In the drawings accompanying this application, Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of my improved knitted cap as it appears on the head. Fig. 2 is a view of a fiat side of the piece of knitted goods having the shape and outline and the length required to produce my improved cap. Fig. 3 is a side view of my improved cap as it appears when completed and folded fiat. Fig.4 is a rear view and Fig. 5 is a front view of the cap as it appears when folded flat, the heavy black lines denoting the sewed seams.

In lmitting machine operations where a piece of-goods is knitted in a flat form, it. is a common practice to knit the rows in a zig-zag fashion so that therows in successive areas of the strip are diagonally related with the selvage at each side running parallel to the rows and forming triangular areas in each side edge. This form of strip then is not broadly new, but in order to produce a cap such as I desire I form or produce triangular edge areas of difierent size successively in the strip, and obtain this result by knitting broad and narrow rows successively. Thus, referring to Fig. 2 I show a flat knitted strip in which the two central rows 2 and 3, respectively, are relatively much smaller or narrower than the two rows 4 and 5 at the right hand side and the two rows 6 and 7 at the left hand side of the strip. The narrow rows form a central division in the strip in which the rows of knitting 2 are diagonally related to the rows of knitting 3, and the rows of knitting continue into the next and wider sections 4 and 6 without break or interruption, but diagonally in respect to the rows of knitting in sections 2 and 3. So also are the rows 5 and 7 diagonally related to the rows of knitting 4 and 6, respectively, and the end edges 8 and 9 of the strip are cut straight across the strip on the transverse line which represents the meeting line of other diagonal rows of knitting made in forming a long continuous strip of a multiple number of such pieces.

The opposite edges 10 and 11 :of the knitted strip are selvages and cannot unravel, and the edge 10 borders two large tri angular knitted areas 12 and 14, together with a much smaller triangular area 15 at an intermediate point.- The edge 11 whilealso angular zigzags parallel to'the opposite edge 10, but the triangular area's produced in opposite sides of the strip difier. Thus, two large and one small triangular areas are formed in edge 10, and two small triangular areas 16 and 17 are produced mid-length of the edge 11 together with semi-triangular areas 18 and 19 at the ends of the strip. This difference in formation at the opposite edges of the strip is of especial advantage and utility in forming a cap of the shape desired and having characteristics which permit the knitted goods to stretch on the lines best adapted to make the cap conform to the head and to hold its shape and fit snug, especially at its bottom'edge 10 in the triangular areas 5 and 6.

Thus referring to Figs. 3 to 5, inclusive, it should be noted that the selvage 11 is sewed together and makes a seam which will not unravel; that the selvage involved on the diagonally related lines between the apex or points of the two triangular areas 16 and 17, respectively, are relatively short and when sewed together are inconspicuous where appearing at the front side of the cap directly above the small triangular peak or area 15, see Fig. 5; that the selvage 11 involved in the angularly-related lines between the outer ends of the strip and the points or tips of the triangular areas 16 and 17 may be sewed together to form a seam which will extend across the top of the cap and down at each side thereof for a short distance as indicated by the heavy black line 20 in Fig. 3, and in sewing this seam the line of union is on a substantially straight line as indicated by the numeral 21, Figs. 4c and 5, and which lines 21 correspond to the straight lines of selvage 11 between the areas 16, 17, 18 and 19.

The transverse end edges 8 and 9 of the knitted strip are also sewed together, thereby providing a vertical seam 23 which is located on a middle line at the rear side of the cap, see Fig. 4, and in order that the tips of the triangular areas 5 and 7 of the cap shall draw or tend to press inward when the cap is stretched over the head, I cut away or sever a triangular portion 24: from the strip at the point where the selvage 10 meets the end edges 8 and 9, respectively. The vertical seam 23 includes the oblique cut edges 25 so that in'sewing the end edges together the rows of knitting 5 and 7 in the bottom portion of the cap are drawn and placed under tension to a considerable degree in the making of the cap and which tension is maintained and made manifest when the cap is placed on the head. Thus, the cap may be used frequently and a snug fit assured at the tips of the triangular areas 12 and 14, that is, the tension in the goods is suflicient to pull the tips inward beneath the ears and in the hollow behind the pivot bones of the jaw and not depend loosely and with unsightly effect. Also, the cap may be turned up at its bottom edge and the triangular flaps will still fit tightly and snugly on the outer sides of the cap and conform to the head. That is, the goods will be flat and fit comfortably with only two thicknesses and not assume the shape of a bulky round roll, nor have an unsightly appearance.

What I claim is:

1. A knitted cap having triangular areas projecting downwardly at each side thereof and possessing an inherent tension adapted to provide a hugging fit at their tips when the cap is worn upon the head.

2. A knitted cap, comprising diagonallyrelated rows of knittingforming a depending triangular area at each side of the cap adapted to cover the ears when the cap is worn upon the head.

3. A knitted cap, comprising diagonallyrelated rows of knitting subdivided into sections of different width forming ajrelatively small peak centrally at the front of the cap and relatively larger triangular areas and depending portions at each side of the cap. 4. A knitted cap, comprising diagonallyrelated rows of knitting at successive intervals, forming a pair of large triangular areas at one border edge of the cap, and providing a plural number of irregular angular areas at its opposite border edge, the edges of the irregular angular areas being sewed together and forming seams at the top of the cap.

5. A knitted cap, comprising a flat strip of knitted goods formed with selvages of angular formation, the transverse end edges of the strip and the adjacent angular edges of one of the selvages being sewed together to form the top of the cap, and the other selvage forming a centrally located front peak and a pair of relatively large triangular ear laps. V

6. A knitted cap, comprising a flat strip of knitted material having selvages of angular form at each side; the end edges of the strip being cut on oblique lines transversely of the strip and sewed together; the adjacent angular portions of one selvage being sewed together to form a cap of ovate shape at one end; and the opposite selvage having a small front peak for the cap and triangular ear laps at each side of the cap.

Signed at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, this 17th day of April, 1919.

LoUIs H; ENSTEN. 

